English Writing Errors of Kurdish EFL Undergraduates: An Error Analysis
The purpose of this study was to identify, characterize, and evaluate writing errors made by Kurdish EFL students at Cihan University in Duhok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In the study, 37 third-year students from the English language department participated. The primary data collection instrument wa...
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Tishk International University
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| description | The purpose of this study was to identify, characterize, and evaluate writing errors made by Kurdish EFL students at Cihan University in Duhok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In the study, 37 third-year students from the English language department participated. The primary data collection instrument was the students’ response sheets for the poetry midterm exam. The errors were first diagnosed and classified into several categories. According to the findings of this study, eight types of writing errors were committed by the participants which were spelling, punctuation, grammar, capitalization, prepositions, verb misuse, and pronoun misuse. The findings of this study also revealed that the most common errors committed by the Kurdish learners were punctuation and capitalization. Such results are important for EFL teachers because they encourage them to pay careful attention to their students’ writing errors and utilize them as pedagogical guidelines while designing activities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-891204380da94bdfa1fdcea6abd8a7602023-11-02T05:15:20ZengTishk International UniversityInternational Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies2409-12942520-09682022-06-019225626610.23918/ijsses.v9i2p256English Writing Errors of Kurdish EFL Undergraduates: An Error AnalysisFouad Rashid Omar0Sami Hussein Hakeem Barzani1Department of English Language Teaching, College of Education, Knowledge University, Erbil, IraqEnglish Language Teaching Department, Faculty of Education, Tishk International University, Erbil, Iraq The purpose of this study was to identify, characterize, and evaluate writing errors made by Kurdish EFL students at Cihan University in Duhok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In the study, 37 third-year students from the English language department participated. The primary data collection instrument was the students’ response sheets for the poetry midterm exam. The errors were first diagnosed and classified into several categories. According to the findings of this study, eight types of writing errors were committed by the participants which were spelling, punctuation, grammar, capitalization, prepositions, verb misuse, and pronoun misuse. The findings of this study also revealed that the most common errors committed by the Kurdish learners were punctuation and capitalization. Such results are important for EFL teachers because they encourage them to pay careful attention to their students’ writing errors and utilize them as pedagogical guidelines while designing activities.https://ijsses.tiu.edu.iq/index.php/volume-9-issue-2-article-19/error analysissources of writing errorsenglish writing errorseflwriting skills |
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